CRUSH
created and performed by Molly R-W
lighting by Del Medoff // music by Ben Juodvalkis
Part love letter, part absurdist caper, and part cultural satire, CRUSH is a solo dance-comedy show for anyone who's ever had a crush. Come relive the most agonizingly-heartbreakingly-ecstatically-disorienting moments of your life <3.
BEHIND THE SCENES: MAKING CRUSH
"[P]art of a generation of Bay Area artists who are moving past identity as category and toward a more expansive view of what queer performance can be...playful, rigorous, and radically inventive."
AUDIENCES SAY...
"I couldn't stop laughing the whole time. My face hurts."
(Philadelphia, 2025)
"I feel like a teenager again! Thank you for making me fall in love."
(San Francisco, 2025)
"I was laughing so hard I literally peed my pants a little. CRUSH is probably the best show I've ever seen..."
(San Francisco, 2024)
IN THE PRESS
"Simply enchanting...No doubt many who experience Rose-Williams’s evocation of a crush, leave with a crush on her." (Jen Norris Dance Reviews)
"Equal parts earnest and ironic..."
PAST PERFORMANCES
Sep 2025 - Cannonball Festival, Philadelphia PA
Aug 2025 - State of Play Festival, ODC SF (excerpt)
Mar 2025 - 33 Hawley, Northampton MA
Jan 2025 - The Marsh, San Francisco CA
Apr 2024 - 33 Hawley, Northampton MA (excerpt)
Mar 2024 - Middlebury College, VT (excerpt)
Jan 2024 - NOHSpace, San Francisco CA
Nov 2023 - Sidestream Studio, Brattleboro VT
Nov 2023 - The Collapsible Hole, New York NY
Sep 2023 - Vancouver Fringe Festival, Vancouver BC
Dec 2022 - NOHSpace, San Francisco CA
* The original title for the December 2022 premier of this show was "We Are All Friends". Now it's "CRUSH"!
** CRUSH was made possible with support from FACT/SF and generous individual donors, as well as residencies through A.P.E., Berkeley Ballet Theater, The Field Center, The Feedback (JGPG), RoundAntennae, School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, and Shawl-Anderson Dance Center.